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Nonfiction works constituted both the good and the abandoned this month. Abandoned: I Got a Name: The Jim Croce Story, Ingrid Croce and Jimmy Rock — Perhaps I’m too much off a stickler when it comes to nonfiction. Recreating conversations between people is somewhat acceptable in my view but when the only participants are dead, […] Tim May 1st, 2013 | Tags: Books, Hitler, Nazi Germany, nonfiction, reading, World War II | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | Each year during National Library Week, the American Library Association releases a State of America’s Libraries report. One of the highlights (or lowlights) is that it contains the Top Ten List of Most Frequently Challenged Books, compiled annually by the organization’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. So here’s this year’s “winners”, in order, and the reasons […] Tim April 16th, 2013 | Tags: banned books, Books, censorship, libraries | Category: A Reading Life, Libraries | Comments are closed | | I am a bit disappointed in myself with this month’s misstep. Enough so that I feel some need to make amends. Therefore, rather than simply identify the books that fail me in a month, I will add those that surprise me or are better than anticipated. Why am I disappointed about the one book I […] Tim April 1st, 2013 | Tags: Books, fiction, history, illiterati, reading | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | Here’s an interesting question. If you had 300 books sitting in your “to read” stack would you be out buying more? As something I read last week observed, most sane people would say no — but that seems to go out the window with e-readers. I’m a case in point. I have nearly 350 books […] Perhaps it’s a timing thing. Two of the three books I abandoned this month were within a day of each other. Meanwhile, the third raises some interesting questions for me about re-reading. The month’s first casualty was The History of History by Ida Hattemer-Higgins. The premise of this debut novel was interesting. An American woman […] |
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